Based on Episode 308, "The Puppetmaster".
She broke her.
How can I go back and fix this mess?
Be there for her?
Protect her?
That woman, that witch, cruelly dictated Katara's future, Katara's life, selfishly terrorizing her with a gift that's planted in evil. Hamma had no right to do that, living out her past so disgustingly in such an innocent person… nothing so horrid that had happened decades ago could compare to what she did to my sister.
Damn it.
Katara sits there, crying and vomiting and feverish, trying to rid herself of such a disease, all in vain. We are of no help, can offer no source of comfort, and it has left an air of such bareness that it's suffocating.
So we sit. It's simple and nothing much, but leaving her alone when she needs us the most- to reassure her that it's not her fault, that she's not like her- is the last thing we need to do. She pushes Toph away, even Aang, and I'm the only one she truly lets close.
It's because I remind her of the Southern Water Tribe, I know. The good side, that is.
She lets me take her hand, as sweaty and clammy as it is, to squeeze. She lets me brush her hair back when another meal leaves her. She lets me hold her close, as only an older brother could, and I don't complain when she stains by shirt with the nosebleeds she often gets now.
Yue help my baby sister; she doesn't deserve any of this. Not the knowledge that she has the power to control people physically… and I don't think she would mind it as much as she does, or at least wouldn't be quite so sick over it, if it weren't for how she learned it.
Katara hasn't even done simple Waterbending for days now, which is so unlike her. She's absent and stoic, too… quite haunting, if one stares too long as she stares back at you.
And yet, there's hardly anything I- we- can do. Katara has to come to terms with this by herself.
She's broken, but hopefully she won't stay that way.
My good friend RadiantBeam inspired me with her Puppetmaster fanfic, Bloodbending, and I was going to ask her if I could write a twin to it, but instead I've decided to make something a little different. I hope you enjoyed it, and you should also go read hers, too.
Also, both of us are in yet another fanfic challenge. On Thanksgiving, we'll be giving the world a fanfic that centers on a certain crack pairing. I won't tell you what it is, but you'll be shocked and happy with the results.
So please review!
XOXO daydream11